I don't have a clue what's going on 2bh. I've left my ps3 in my house up in uni while I'm home for the easter holidays (3 weeks, one week remaining).
Can someone give me a clear idea of what exactly has happened?

ANON… says they didn’t do it? do you really believe them? Considering that they are pissed off that SONY has taken Legal Action against this GEO HOT d bag? this little geek (thats what he is) bought a ps3 and then when sony brought in an update that removed a certain feature , namely the ability to install a 3rd part operating system (linus etc). BUT TO RECEIVE THIS UPDATE , THIER WERE TERMS to agree to. SONY did not force anyone to push the accept button, This geek pushed the ACCEPT BUTTON and therefore accepted the new terms by sony. These people could have easily REFUSED to ACCEPT the terms and simply not used the PSN and continued gaming on their PS3 OFFLINE and been able to run and install a 3rd party operating system. Sony’s PSN is a PRIVATE network provided to us by the company, This is not a GOV’T network provided by tax payers. A PRIVATE NETWORK can impose LIMITATIONS/RESTRICTIONS on its users as they see fit (provided it doesn’t break federal rules) The hacker D bags are just a bunch of retards (no offense to mentally ill)who wanted to continue gaming/hacking and when sony cracked down on them , they started having a temper tantrum and started hacking. AGAIN. SONY NEVER FORCED ANYONE to ACCEPT the upgrades. THEY COULD HAVE EASILY NOT USED THE PSN and continued gaming not hooked up to the psn. They chose to accept the new terms to use PSN.

But since they have pissed so many people off they are denying that they had anything to do with PSN going down. Its a personal vendetta they have with Sony. I mean I am no couch potato I work and all but this weekend I had free time and was going to play some COD...